To his Excellency the Governor of Kentucky

The undersigned state that they were members of the regular Jury which tried George W Wilkinson indicted and was tried at the April Term of the Mason Circuit Court. 1861 for stabbing in sudden affray without malice and not in self defence Samuel Hall, The Jury under the evidence were compelled to find a verdict of guilty against the said defendent it being clearly proved that in a sudden affray, without malice he did stab and cut one Samuel Hall, and there was not sufficient evidence to that effect to authorize the Jury to find that the act was done in self defence. At the same time there were circumstances of extenuation attending the commission of said offence, which taken in connection with the ^good^ character of the deft, and his enfeebled conditions of body, enduce the undersigned to recommend the said defendent as a proper subject for executive, clemency, and they would respectfuly recommend that his excellency ^the Governor^ to should remit that part of his punishment which consists in imprisonment in the county jail for Six months, and also so much of the five of fifty dollars as is subject to the Executive control,